grand battements

[annii688]

que ejercicio mas raro no

[knowitallAJ]

The girl in the middle is focusing to much on height, and forgetting about technique. I do that too ;D

[MeGaNaNdREaful]

las chicas que estan ahi doblan la pierna al hacer gran battements!!!

[JessShadows1]

que falta de pratica...

[Hededet1]

Insult to DANCE!

[ashieemc]

do you actually have to do the splits at the end?? :)

[MarianabPi07]

HEY I BELIEVE THEY ARE SPANISH SPEAKERS ....NO RESPONSES

[angel37cute]

what grade???????????



[Hafdis10]

which grade

[belladancer222]

Jeez. Its not about throwing your leg the highest. My goodness :|

[dreamtide98]

what grade????

[yukiyeow1234567890]

what grade is this?

[carlavivian100]

ai q lindo!! muito legal msm!

[serenaisgood]

I don't think people should exactly insult dancers on youtube, if she's not a pro stop telling her that she's terrible, but instead encourage her and give her tips.

[GlammyxX]

don't kick your leg to high it's nit stretched and pointed you need to keep to your Height so it is stretched

[nerdasaurusbex]

Terrible technique. The movement seems really forced and heavy. Flexibility's worthless if there's no control..

[MrKLT1945]

PRESSURE needed through the floor on the way up and on the way down, as well as all the other things described by others. Far too much 'How high is my leg' and almost no ballet technique. Poor teaching is to blame rather than the girls.

[sheremetievv]

heavy heavy heavy... not clean at all.. it´s not a grand battement.

[Dancingvermonter]

just keep in mind, teachers would rather see a nice striaght turned out pointed grand battement instead of a sloppy but high grand battement.

[jinpitakki33]

i would just like to point out that height is not a good excuse for sacrificing technique. even though the first one was actually on fondu, her foot was flexed and there's no carrying down of the leg. she did bend her supporting knee when it was supposed to be straight though they're just chucking their legs up everywhere. backs aren't very good either.

[CHILEISA]

estas muy gorda no se ve lindo lo siento es mi opinion

[Alltheweirdfaces]

Holy crap, how about we straighten those supporting legs girls...

[danceskatemusic]

the best grand battements dont go high at all. Its all about controlling the back, keeping your hips square.

[sofiemarris]

the girl in the middle is lucky to be that supple but needs to learn to control her movements and not throw her legs around, it seems she is compensating keeping her back up and supporting leg stretched for height

[189790]

magari le stendiamo quelle ginocchia e piedi .....ma perfavore ...

[Malela89]

maybe it was in demi plie so sad she have weight problems but keep it comin

[dance2felina]

wow such a nice exercise!

[BrunetteBalletDancer]

the middle girl is bending her supporting knee and bending her back -.-

[xBallet4Evax]

the middle girls needs to make sure she dosnt bend the supporting leg :)

[tete9824]

@xBallet4Evax if you notice all the girls bent her supporting leg at the beginning.

[xBallet4Evax]

@tete9824 well then she needs to bend it more!

[Thedoomcookieness]

@xBallet4Evax it looks to me that the bending of the leg is on purpose. if you stop the video you can see that every girl has her leg bent, so perhaps it was supposed to be a battement in plie

[dancersof]

i really liked the girl in the middle. but just keep your upper body held while going to the back... i get that a lot

[chaukwan199722]

=.="

[renagade1234]

lol @ people giving tips. cute.

[rodrigo731]

this exercise was especially with a bent knee in that part.. is not an error....

[DanceforJC87]

I agree with Italiantwinkie.

And I dance to that song.

[beena001]

I've never seen any battement sequence with a front split like that, what syllabus is this ?

Is this for exercise or exams?

[italiantwinkie]

what nathalie said,

but something i especially saw was that they [at least the middle girl] bent her standing knee when she battemented [sp?] to the front.

very good height.

just keep the upper body still

and keep the knees stretched

and the hips still [when battementing to the side]

[nicolerenee7]

My eye caught the middle girl bending her knee as well, but if you go back you will see that they all bend their knees when they do their grand battements to the front.

[soorenna]

Agree with the things you say;-)

She bends here knwee all the time she does the battement jeté devant and while analyzing the excercise it seems like if they only had to do a battement jeté soutenu before they did the envelopé and the developé and not everytime when they battement in front like she does.

[Djumke2011]

@italiantwinkie al of them bent there legs went they battemented to the front

[Giseasworld]

@italiantwinkie I think the teacher asked them to bend it, just maybe, cuz everybody did the same thing (I know my grammar sucks, sorry)

[Nathalie2905]

keep your hips still and don't bent your upper body so far when you're doing your grand battement backwards...